How the Wolf Became the Dog

Scientists speculate that the first dog appeared between 15,000 and 38,000 years ago." What does speculate mean?

• threaten
• prove
• think
• pretend

What word describes the wolves that stayed in human campsites?

• gentle
• fierce
• scared
• nervous

In the late 1800s, why did dogs become popular pets in America?

• People needed working dogs in cities.
• Dogs herded animals on family farms.
• People could afford to pay for them.
• Dogs became domesticated.

_________ used dogs as guards and hunting companions.

• Native Americans
• Settlers
• George Washington
• Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark journeyed with a big black dog they named _____.

• Sailboat
• Pocahontas
• Seaman
• Lewis

In ancient ________ some hunting dogs were so prized that they were turned into mummies and buried with their owners!

• America
• England
• Native America
• Egypt

The change from the gray wolf into the dogs we have now happened _____.

• gradually
• quickly

Which domesticated animal came first?

• cows
• chickens
• dogs
• horses